What happened?

Many years ago, while in secondary school, I bought this domain and used it for
my main website. It was my platform to practice my PHP skills and learn new things.
Over the years I became less interested in web development and focused on
applications development (i.e. Java, C++) since my courses were using that.

I had developed my own sort of framework in PHP to create what became known as
the "old Jsyte". At some point my website was
defaced and I realized that I didn't have the energy to keep up with my site. I
fixed the security hole but decided to switch to something that made it easier to
publish and was a better known platform. I picked WordPress because of the ease of
setup and use with the power I needed.

WordPress proved to be high maintenance. I figured out how to update the core and
plugins using svn, but there were frequent updates that I couldn't keep up with. I
already didn't have time to write my blog. My host updated their pricing to be more
fair (which is one of the reasons I love them, so check out NearlyFreeSpeech.Net) and I discovered that
the database was using a lot of space (simply because it was not optimized) and the
site using a lot of resources. Spambots had always been a problem, but the spam
filter would usually catch the posts. I eventually locked down commenting since I
wasn't getting comments anyways.

Recently, WordPress was subject to a massive distributed attack. The attack
involved hitting the login page trying to find the administrator password. My site
was subject to the attack, and my host quickly stepped in and blocked internet
access to the login page. I was thankful because it saved me from a massive hit in
usage fees.

As a result of the attack I took down the site. I had been planning on doing
something with my website, but it was low priority. Before the attack, I already had
a more personal/professional "CV" site up. I will probably use subdomains
here for random projects. I don't anticipate hosting my own blog, for that I'll
stick to a hosted solution (such as Blogger).

Thank you all for reading this, and I apologize if you came here trying to find
something and can no longer get to it.